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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFIQE.

PELEG BARKER, OF MOSCOW, MICHIGAN.

MACHINE FOR MEASURING, REGISTERING, AND RECEIVING GRAIN DIRECT FROMTHRESHING-MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 20,474, dated June 8, 1858.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PELEG BARKER, of the township of Moscow, in thecounty of Hillsdale and State of Michigan, have invented a new anduseful Machine for Beceiving, Measuring, Registering, and DepositingGrain from Threshing-Machines, called a grain receiver, measurer,register, and depositer, and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, which is aperspective view.

I construct my machine by making two measures ten by fourteen inches andeight inches deep inside containing eleven hundred and twenty inches. Ithen put cleats on the outsides even with the top, seven eighths of aninch square, reaching the length of the measure, and also on the loweredge even with the bottom one inch thick and one and a half inches wide.The bottom I in general put in such a manner that the door, which is thelower half, of one end of the measures, which opens outward and is hungat the top edge and when closed shall rest against the end of the bottomboard, leaving the ends of the sideboards projecting out one half of aninch at the lower corners leaving room for the latch and fasteningswithout interfering with the other measure when in use. I then make twopieces of hard wood four feet long and four inches wide, and one and aquarter inches thick on the bottom edge of which I nail two boardsthirteen and one half inches long and one foot wide having them evenwith the ends of the long pieces. On the top edge of which I nail twopieces of boards, half an inch thick and two inches wide, forming thetrack to slide the measures on, and projecting inwardly three fourths ofan inch leaving room underneath for the sides of a drawer or box ofthirty inches in length which can be drawn out at pleasure at the endsof the machine, the object of the said box or drawer being to catch orreceive any scattering grain that may run over or be stricken off of themeasures. I then make the sideboards which form the main sides or bodyof the machine four feet long, sixteen inches of each end being fiveinches wide and the middle sixteen inches being fifteen inches wide orhigh, which are secured by nailing to the aforesaid pieces of hardwoodfour feet long and four inches wide. I then take a board fifteen and onehalf inches long and sixteen inches wide and nail it on the top edges ofthe middle section of the aforesaid sideboards which forms the middlesection of the machine through which the measures pass. I then cut ahole nine inches square in the said top board on which is placed thehopper to receive the grain from the threshingmachine. The said hoppermay be four or live inches in height. I then take a piece of hardwoodboard fourteen inches long, six inches wide and one inch thick which issecured on the side of the middle section of the machine by means ofscrews, the upper edge three (3) inches below the top of the said middlesect-ion. I then out a mortise near the top of the left hand corner ofsaid piece last described the said mortise being cut through boththicknesses, and being two inches long and three eighths of an inchwide, through which I pass a metallic lever with the two ends bent atright angles, each end being two and one half inches in length andsecured to the inside of the side of the machine, by means of a bolt orwire passing through a hole in the corner of the said lever and leavingit free to play back and forth, the inside end of it being placedhorizontally on the inside of the machine through which the measurespass and so arranged that it can play back and fort-h one inch, theother end passing through the side of the machine through the saidmortise and having a hole in the end of it to which is attached a handwhich moves the machinery which is composed of three metallic wheelshaving a shaft on one end projecting three eighths of an inch and of aninch in diameter, the other end projecting out one inch and a quarter.The said wheels are two and a half inches in diameter and ten notches oneach wheel. On the front side of the wheels there is a projection of onefourth of an inch commencing at the shaft and increasing its diameter tofive eighths of an inch in making a revolution. Said wheels are placedin a horizontal 'position on the front side of the said board on theside of the machine with the longest shaft outward projecting through athin face board, with the pointers attached to the ends of the shafts ofthe said wheels, which face board is secured to small boards nailed onto the ends of the aforesaid hard wood board. The top of the said smallbox containing the wheels and machinery is likewise covered by a smallboard nailed on, and the dials and pointers on the face board aresecured from injury while in operation by means of a small board slidingin grooves on the inside of the end boards. The first or left hand wheelis moved one notch ahead by means of a cleat marked A in the drawingsaid cleat being on the sides of the measures, which in passing throughpresses against the inner end of the right angled lever above mentioned,which moves the first or left hand wheel by means of the hand attachedto it one notch each time the meas ure is passed through the box, andthe lever and hand is thrown back to its original position by means of aspiral spring which is inserted in a hole bored in the end of hard woodboard and placed in such a position that one end of the spring restsagainst the aforesaid lever. The middle and right hand wheels are movedby perpendicular levers five inches in length with a notch or jog in oneedge of the levers corresponding with the projections on the face of thewheels. Said levers are attached at the bottom end by a pivot. At thetop end of said levers are attached hands, so that when the first orleft hand wheel has mace one revolution the second wheel will move onenotch, and whenever the second'wheel has made one entire revolution thethird or last wheel moves one notch, which causes the pointers on thedials to point out the units, tens and hundreds of bushels which maypass through the machine. The second and third wheels also have spiralsprings similar to the first wheel to throw them back so as to catch thenotches.

The manner of using the machine consists of setting it 011 the ground orfloor beside the threshing machine in such a manner that the spout fromthe separator shall be placed in the hopper, and when one measure isfull it is removed by shoving in the other measure which pushes the fullone out of the left hand end of the machine; the measure being thentaken up and the end of the bag being drawn over the end of the measurethe latch is touched by the finger which opens the door and empties thegrain without the trouble of tipping up the measure, which is then setdown on the right hand end of the machine in readiness to shove theother out when full.

Vhat I claim is l. The combination and arrangement of the parts,substantially as described, for receiving, measuring and registeringgrain direct from threshing machines.

2. I also claim in combination with the machinery for registeringsubstantially as described, two or more measures or boxes, constructedand operated as described, for receiving the material to be measured.

PELEG BARKER. l/Vitnesses:

N. G. VREELAND, F. FAIRCI-IILD.

